If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
We are all afraid of the truth.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. . . . Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow. ' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.
"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to each other. " And my grandfather told me all the stories. I mean, their way of communicating. . . They didn't have telephones, either, so they communicated with the written word. And I really. . . That's how old [Bill] Clinton has become to me [speaking of how he met Hillary Clinton].
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.